SMART Board

General Resources for creating SMART Board lessons:

Teachers can locate SMART Board lessons and interactive tools online, modify existing lessons and tools, or create lessons using tools available within Notebook software. The SMART Tech site contains a wealth of resources to assist teachers, including the ability to search through lessons that other teachers created. Here are some useful sites to look for ideas and lessons.

You can also search online for lesson materials- try using keywords including your specific topic and "interactive whiteboard," "activity'' or "lesson." SMART Board is a name brand for an interactive whiteboard, other useful lessons might be on sites intented for competitive products such as Promethean or Mimio, so take a look there, too.

Instructions:	SMART Board quick reference
Online SMART Board lesson resources:	Search for SMART resources	SMART exchange Search for teacher-created SMART resources
	Center School District Interactive resources by subject area	Thinkfinity - search for interactives or lessons
About Using SMART Boards and other interactive whiteboards:	Ways to use Whiteboards in the classroom (tips and links to tutorials)	Teachers love SMART Boards Blog about teaching with SMART Boards- mentions many resources
	Teaching with SMART Board blog with videos, lesson ideas, & links	SMART Board Revolution Ning (online community) about using SMART Boards

March 23, 2010 PD Using SMART Boards for Math lessons:

Tomlinson March 23 Math.notebook

Math Resources for SMART Boards:

Preview this SMART notebook math tools software add on
http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Products/SMART+Notebook+Math+software/default.htm

These sites can be used to locate lessons or various math manipulatives that you can incorporate into your lessons.

Links to Various Resources:	SMARTer Math Classes	e-Learning	Interactivate (Shodor) Lesson plans and activities
	Math by Design Online math activites and videos
Manipulatives and Interactive games	National LIbrary of Virtual Manipulatives	CTK interactive math games	Intel online interactive tools
	Everyday math resources interactive math manipulatives	Downloadable tools for Numeracy	Crickweb
	Birmingham interactive resources	Johnnie's Math Page	Math Dictionary
	Waldomaths	Visual Fractions	Kent interactive games
	Topmarks	Interactive Lessons
Measurement	Alfy's links for measurement	Length converter Weight converter	Volume converter Area converter More converters & calculators
Geometry	Virtual Geoboard	Virtual Tangram	Measuring Angles
	Polygon Sort	Triangle Sort	Virtual Pinboard measures angles of shapes
	Geometry Interactive	Surface area & volume

Notebook Files- SMART Board Pages:

These sites contain files with lessons written in Notebook software which you can use as is or with modifications on a SMART Board.

Choose from links:	Lessons from Wichita some with Clicker quizzes	Lessons from Center School District	ACCE lesson examples and background papers
Measurement	Metric "Stairsteps"	Metric conversion
Geometry	Shapes Matching shapesmatching.notebook Details Download 603 KB

SMART Board Galleries- clip art to use in Notebook files:

These sites contain galleries of math-related pictures which you can add to notebook software to incorporate into lessons.

Place Values:	Place Values	Place values with columns	more Place Value with columns
Measurement:	Measurement Tools
Integers	Integer Bingo	Cuisenaire rods
Geometry	Fun shapes

Create your own lesson:

Use the images and manipulatives in the Notebook Software Gallery collections to create activites for your class.

Use the Lesson Activity Toolkit to develop your own manipulatives. Here are some examples you can use, placed within a Notebook file. Click to open, save the file, and then modify the activities that are appropriate for your class. Creating new activities.notebook